|
The characteristic activities are not hindered by outer
events but merely adapt themselves, remaining always fine, and
perhaps all the finer for dealing with the actual. When he has to
handle particular cases and things, he may not be able to put his
vision into act without searching and thinking, but the one
greatest principle is ever present to him, like a part of his
being- most of all present, should he be even a victim in the
much-talked-of Bull of Phalaris. No doubt, despite all that has
been said, it is idle to pretend that this is an agreeable
lodging; but what cries in the Bull is the thing that feels the
torture; in the Sage there is something else as well, The
Self-Gathered which, as long as it holds itself by main force
within itself, can never be robbed of the vision of the All-Good.
|
|